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Instead, the pairing has produced the biggest tech deal in Oregon history and a surprise Wall Street darling: a new company called Qorvo worth nearly $10 billion. The value of the all-stock combination has more than tripled since TriQuint and RFMD announced the merger in February.

"If somebody tells you they saw this amount of change coming a year ago they're just not telling the truth, " said TriQuint chief financial officer Steve Buhaly, who now holds the same title with Qorvo.

The deal closed Thursday (a day later than planned, holding over into the new year for tax reasons) and the stock began trading Friday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QRVO. TriQuint and RFMD now set to work integrating their businesses, a months-long process that will decide the fate of TriQuint's factory in Hilllsboro and hundreds of jobs at the site.

Growing industry

TriQuint and RFMD each thrived last year due to exploding demand for next-generation, LTE wireless technology. Growth is especially strong in China, where handsets are skipping straight from basic cell phones to smartphones running the latest, "4G" wireless technology.

"People are going from voice-only to a nice, 4G phone, " he said. "The opportunity for TriQuint and our peers is huge."

The booming demand for LTE raises the prospect that TriQuint could have survived the budding investor revolt and remained an independent, Oregon-based company. But Buhaly, now Qorvo's highest-ranking Oregon executive, said size is even more important given the industry's rapid growth.

"I think we were too small, " he said.

Scale helps manage large customers' big orders and cyclical demands. TriQuint's largest customer is Apple contractor Foxconn, and its sales always jump as production ramps up on new generations of iPhones.

Buhaly said the combination of TriQuint's and RFMD's product lines will help them combine functions into a single, tiny package.

"There's more and more content in the phone, but the phones aren't getting bigger, " he said. "So customers want more and more integrated solutions."

Investors agree. TriQuint's stock jumped 26 percent the day it announced the merger and stock analysts grew increasingly enthusiastic about the combination as the year went on anticipating the surge in smartphone demand is only beginning.

Source: www.oregonlive.com

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